Orloff Gas: Sao Paulo

Posted on December 7, 2007 Under Food

Last weekend at Mercado Mundo Mix, a market-slash-fair that brings together up-and-coming stores and designers from the underground fashion world mostly in Sao Paulo, I got egged into trying a new super-carbonated and fizzy shot of vodka called Orloff Gas,…

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Jones Sours

Posted on November 19, 2007 Under Food

Jones is releasing some new, sour, carbonated bevvies candies come January, and they need a shot of your best pucker to give their packaging some of that classic Jones je ne sais quoi. I know what you thinking -- Sour…

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DrinkMe

Posted on July 31, 2007 Under Food

Warning: If you are epileptic you may want to be careful when checking out the site for DrinkMe, the best-kept secret energy uberdrink from Austria that has a cartoon website full of flashing color. Named after the famous goodies Alice…

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AntiMatter/Space2O

Posted on July 19, 2007 Under Food

Microgravity Enterprises sells products such as the AntiMatter energy drink and Space2O water. The company is based on "bringing space to earth", so basically flying the product to space and bringing it back down is special. Space2Oâ„¢ claims to have…

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7-Eleven Goes Yellow

Posted on July 19, 2007 Under Food

7-Eleven just announced the conversion of all "participating stores" to be temporary Kwik-E-Marts (or at least they did on the radio"¦I have yet to track down a news release). The lucky girl I am, I happen to live near one…

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Metrokane L-Press

Posted on July 18, 2007 Under Design

I had a juicer once. I think Jack La Lanne convinced me I needed it around 3am one morning. But instead of Jack's made-for-TV Power Juicer, I went to Wal~Mart and picked up the super budget version. It worked the…

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Unthirsty: Level Two

Posted on July 17, 2007 Under Food

Back in May, Heather told us about Unthirsty, a boozy site that uses Google Maps to help locate the happiest happy hours in your neighborhood based on a number of important criteria like drink specials, patio and wifi availability. This…

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Function Drinks

Posted on June 14, 2007 Under Food

Dr. Alex Hughes is an orthopedic surgeon at UCLA in the morning and in the afternoon, he is the president of Function Drinks. You may have heard of Function Drinks (their first drink, Urban Detox, is a popular remedy for…

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Cucumber Pepsi, Mmm!

Posted on June 13, 2007 Under Food

Attention All Strange Pepsi Collectors (and by that I mean strange flavors of Pepsi, not that Pepsi collectors are abnormal in any way): yesterday marked the release of Pepsi Ice Cucumber, a limited-time-only special edition beverage developed for the Japanese…

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Talk Shop Fridays: Drinky, Drinky

Posted on May 25, 2007 Under Food

It's Friday, and it's supposed to reach ninety-two degrees here in NYC. That has me thinking, even with my monumental hangover, about icy cold cocktails. Not like the martinis I drank last night that ensured me feeling like junk today,…

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